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UK and France to ratify 'one in, one out' migrant returns deal
UNITED KINGDOM, AUG 6 – The UK and France start a pilot to return about 50 migrants weekly arriving illegally by small boats, aiming to disrupt smuggling networks and exchange asylum seekers legally arriving.
- With ratification secured, the UK-French returns deal is now active, and detentions are expected to start within days after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron’s agreement took effect.
- After the treaty on the ‘one-in, one-out’ scheme was signed last week, the European Commission and EU member states approved the plan, enabling ratification on Tuesday.
- In exchange, the UK will admit the same number of asylum seekers from France with UK family ties via a safe route, under the pilot scheme that allows detention and return of inadmissible adult migrants.
- UK authorities are operationally ready, and reports indicate about 50 migrants per week could be returned to France.
- Critics say about 50 weekly returns contrast sharply with over 800 weekly crossings as of 30 July, when more than 25,000 people crossed in 2025.
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UK and France begin limited one-in-one-out migrant returns deal
The one-in-one-out migrant returns treaty between the UK and France has come into force with the Government insisting the first detentions will happen in a matter of days. It’s estimated that around 50 people a week will be exchanged, in a move opposition parties say will make little difference to the illegal channel crossing trade.
Migrants and asylum seekers who cross the Channel illegally could be detained and sent back to France.
ledauphine.com
The text, concluded at the beginning of July, provides for the return to France of migrants arriving on small boats in the United Kingdom in exchange for the overseas shipment of migrants in France. Valid until June 2026, it enters into force from Wednesday.
Evening Standard
How will the UK-France migrants return deal work as it comes into force?
The deal will be operational from Wednesday with detentions expected in the coming days.
perspectivemedia.com
The Independent (US)Small boats crisis risking community cohesion, Kemi Badenoch claims
Asked whether the Conservatives were partly to blame for the immigration and asylum situation, Mrs Badenoch said: ‘No, I don’t accept that at all.’ The failure to stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats is putting community cohesion at risk, Kemi Badenoch has claimed. The Conservative leader also hit out at the deal the Government has struck with France to return migrants across the English Channel and insisted the Tories could not be …
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